[
UK
/tʃˈʌmi/
]
[ US /ˈtʃəmi/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃəmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
-
(used informally) associated on close terms
a close friend
the two were thick as thieves for months
the bartender was chummy with the regular customers
How To Use chummy In A Sentence
- We thought they became a bit too chummy. Times, Sunday Times
- Imperialism, which has always been chummy with and supportive of its fascist kin, will play its historical role in degrading the people, dividing the society, and destroying the nation.
- It is personal, chummy yet flashes a glint of steel. Times, Sunday Times
- Anyone who falls outside that "chummy" socialist family is a pariah and characterised as such. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
- It is personal, chummy yet flashes a glint of steel. Times, Sunday Times
- the bartender was chummy with the regular customers
- They'll be too busy enjoying the dry wit and chummy storytelling that has established Strong's enthusiastic following.
- In the dressing room the previously chummy atmosphere had changed. Times, Sunday Times
- She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run. Anne of the Island
- As chatty and chummy as one of his famous monologues, the book celebrates an unusually charmed life in a profession more noted for its high incidence of ego and angst, burnout and heartache.